Factors as exposure to various modes of communication, including porn pictures and movies from internet, pre-matured sexual behaviors are learnt to have led to some 12 cases of rape and attempt to rape in the district this year.
In many of these cases, almost of the victims are below 20 years with girls and students below 16 accounting for the majority, shared Bikash Shrestha, Superintendent of Police (SP) at MPR, Bhaktapur. Likewise, many victims in the 14 cases registered last year were young girls and students too.
SP Shrestha was of the opinion that the perpetrators often prey the people belonging to this age-group as they are weak in terms of physical strength for self-defense. Similarly, in many cases the perpetrators are found to be people holding blue color jobs- namely labors and drivers.
Interestingly, in many of the rape cases, the perpetrators were found to be familiar people, often within the family and relatives rather than strangers.
Rape cases increasing in Bhaktapur
"It has been difficult for the Police to take measures to minimize the cases of rape and bring the culprit to book as the victims, who often fall prey to various threat and temptation of perpetrators, reach Police much later fearing social stigma," argued SP Shrestha.
Sexual aberration apart, factors like lack of knowledge about the legal provision and unemployment among others are also found to have played second fiddle to cases of rape that is on the rise of late in Bhaktapur. RSS
